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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 363023, member: 2972&quot;]900fine, </p><p><br /></p><p>I never (to my knowledge) suggested otherwise.&nbsp; I certainly didn&#039;t intend it to be intepreted as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>To wit, the most expensive coin in my collection (up until I got a chain cent) was in an NGC slab, so I certainly don&#039;t discriminate with respect to slabs...</p><p><br /></p><p>Quite frankly, NGC slabs (particularly freshly-graded ones) can be a buying opportunity for those who know how to evaluate, grade, and price coins themselves, and &quot;knowledgable people&quot; don&#039;t &quot;trust&quot; grading compaines to grade coins -- or at least the knowledgable people I know -- they trust themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the tenor of the OP&#039;s question suggests that he&#039;s not quite there yet (not that there&#039;s anything wrong with that) thus my response.</p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully...MIke</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. I find it a tad bit ironic you chose an (in my opinion) grossly overgraded rarity and a coin which would likely sell for the same price if it were raw as your example.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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